Today we will be spending our morning at Zenkoji Temple, and then we will make our way to Kanazawa via Shinkansen. After that, a short late afternoon walk around at Higashi Chaya District.
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One of the most famous pâtisserie in Nagano based on my research on Tabelog. So we decided to go for it after our morning sightseeing trip to Zenkoji Temple which is actually quite nearby.
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Today will be spending most of our day in Matsumoto visiting the Matsumoto Castle aka Crow Castle (due to castle’s black exterior colour), Nawate Street, Nakamachi District, and Matsumoto City Museum of Art. We also did some light night walk around at Nagano Gondo District.
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Second time’s the charm! As the first time I visited them they were close, which is during the first day of my Japan trip.
In short, the best Shinshu Togakushi Juwari (100% Buckwheat) Soba I ever eaten at the point of time!
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Today will be a full-day excursion to Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, as per our pre-trip planning we already knew that we can’t cover all the areas in a 1-day trip, sadly missing out on Midagahara and Bijodaira area.
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This ramen shop has superb location (opposite Nagano JR station), long opening hours (11am-1am), and opens daily! Shortlisted into my to-eat list for this trip purely based on its location and opening hours, cause not much food stalls open that late into the night outside of the main cities in Japan.
Most importantly, how does this bowl of ramen fares?
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Our (wife and I) first ever trip to Japan (after saying for so long)! It is a red-eye flight from Singapore to Haneda International Airport via Japan Airlines JL38 on Business Class (I will be doing a review on that soon!).
Upon clearing immigration, collecting our luggage, exchanging our JR Passes at a booth a few steps away after stepping out of immigration, plus a couple of train transfers before taking the Shinkansen from Tokyo Station to Nagano Station (phew, that’s quite a handful).
First meal of my first ever Japan trip! Although this wasn’t my first choice for Shinshu Soba, I chose to dine here because my first choice (Bocchi) was close on that day. Too hungry and tired (flight from Singapore to Tokyo and then shinkansen from Tokyo to Nagano), so my second choice will be more than good enough!
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